Re: Social Darwinism; was: So Long Judge Moore, We'll Miss You

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:51:22 +0000 (UTC), 
ambrose searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> ambrose searle wrote in talk.origins
>> 
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maff) wrote in message news:
>> >> But Bible Belt fundamentalists, Confederates and the Klan didn't
>> >> beleive in Darwin or evolution. THey wre murdering and torturing
>> >> people even before Darwin.
>> > 
>> > So what? How does that change the fact that Darwin was also a racist?
>> 
>> How racist was he, especially when compared to others of his society?
>> Why condemn someone's thinking when it reflected the then current societal
>> attidudes?
> 
> His racism wasn't simply a matter of imbibing current political
> values... it was, according to him, A BYPRODUCT OF HIS SCIENTIFIC
> THEORY.

If this is what he felt, then he was wrong.  It's that simple.  He had no
idea that, a century later, researchers would learn that every human
population on this planet is extremely closely related, and that any
morphological differences are of the most minor nature.

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Aaron Clausen

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